British Airways relaxes the dress code for non-rev (staff ticket) passengers

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• TripRep says:

  16 Jun16 June 08:22

  Rob – how long do we have to wait for an article on luxury bespoke flipflops? 😉

  O/T: was reviewing the EDI options from the excellent reviews last November,

  We’ll likely be in EDI for breakfast and lunch…. Trying to decide between Aspire & No1, anyone know if No1 is still restricting one hot meal per pax?

  • Brighton Belle says:

    16 Jun16 June 08:30

    Eating more than 1 hot meal per pax will incline you to unpleasant excess baggage effects ;-(

    • Lumma says:

      16 Jun16 June 09:38

      Probably not with the size of the No1 traveller hot meals

      • Lady London says:

        16 Jun16 June 10:54

        Defo not. To go from the No. 1 hot options at Gatwick, they were small and have got smaller to the point of meanness. Delicious though.

  • Stu N says:

    16 Jun16 June 08:49

    No. 1 give you a voucher that you hand in when you order, so I guess that enforces the one order per person. You could always go to Aspire for buffet breakfast and No.1 for lunch of on Priority Pass.

    • the real harry1 says:

      16 Jun16 June 08:58

      In No1 T3 they use an A5 size menu to act as the voucher to hand in – I did sort of notice that some people just left them on their table before leaving, not having ordered anything… 🙂

      • Lewis King says:

        16 Jun16 June 13:42

        Yeah we ate twice last week at LGW thanks to our neighbours not realising this..!

      • the real harry1 says:

        16 Jun16 June 16:48

        this is wombling with instant payback! 🙂

  • cv3v says:

    16 Jun16 June 09:00

    Aspire gets used as the business lounge for some airlines (Qatar etc) so can get busy. Perhaps its the times i fly at, but i haven’t ever seen No.1 full. No.1 also has nice brownie, but doesn’t have any toilets (not that the 2 are connected). I like the space of No.1, its the old BA lounge. There are a lot of good food options in the main terminal.

  • ankomonkey says:

    16 Jun16 June 09:01

    Can you leave for 15 minutes, swipe the PP card again as if a new customer and get a new food voucher?

    • the real harry1 says:

      16 Jun16 June 09:17

      I don’t think the system wouldn’t throw you out, so yes in theory, might need testing though – the desk agent recognising you might be trickier

      The real worry would be getting charged £15 for the second swipe on the same day, wouldn’t PP build in some measure to stop people doing this? Maybe not, it’s perfectly feasible for somebody to legitimately use the same lounge (say) morning & evening if they travelled back from a meeting…

      • HAM76 says:

        18 Jun18 June 07:42

        Last year I did a lounge tour at Heathrow and visited every PP or Amex Platinum accessible arrival lounge. There were no charges…

    • John says:

      16 Jun16 June 09:31

      Do they record your flight number when you enter? If you legitimately had 2 flights the same day you would expect to be able to enter again on a new visit

  • Rob says:

    16 Jun16 June 11:26

    I saw some Prada ones at half price in Liberty yesterday, but still £182.50 I think.

    • Darren says:

      16 Jun16 June 16:59

      Mr Ashley has some Fendi ones reduced from £655 to the bargain price of £460 at his posh shop (not Sports Direct), would go well will OB bulldog shorts

• Tim W says:

  16 Jun16 June 08:57

  Norwich Airport lounge was always a member of Priority Pass until the recent refurbishment. When passing through a couple of months ago the lounge was closed, and people flying eg KLM Business Class were given a voucher for free refreshments from the public cafe. However I was told that Priority Pass was no longer accepted. Glad to see it back there. I’ll be going through again in a couple of weeks, so will try and remember to make some notes!

• CV3V says:

  16 Jun16 June 09:03

  I reminisce about the days of staff travel and being under orders not to let on to the paying passengers that i just travelled to the US in business for £65 (ish) return. At the end of a flight into Vegas i spoke to a very well dressed couple who were sat near me, turned out they were on staff tickets, then they told me there was 12 staff passengers on the flight!

• Stu N says:

  16 Jun16 June 09:53

  OT – just browsing Heathrow Rewards and noticed a free 1st upgrade on Hex for Premium members.

  “As a Premium member you can enjoy up to four upgrades to Business First with Heathrow Express trains each year.
  Find your upgrade code in your latest Heathrow Rewards quarterly statement. If you can’t locate your code contact Heathrow Rewards Customer Services.
  How to use your code;
  • Visit heathrowexpress.com or the Heathrow Express app
  • Input your code in the ‘Promotional Code’ box
  • Select a Business First ticket, which will display at the same price as the Express Saver ticket
  • Check out and pay
  • Enjoy your journey in Business First with Heathrow Express”

  Looks like it will only work for full fare tickets so not as good as it might initially appear, and I personally wouldn’t pay anything extra for Heathrow Express 1st anyway.

• Paul Johnson says:

  16 Jun16 June 09:54

  I always wear short/flip flops when travelling, either First or Upper. Is that bad? I pay for most tickets but some are points. I’ve never even considered it until this article! Should I don my double breasted G&H next time? 🙂

  • the real harry1 says:

    16 Jun16 June 10:04

    When I flew out out to HK in CX business to start my first job after university, they sat me with an American new start counterpart – we’d both been given a generous clothing allowance for suits etc so not wanting to give a bad first impression we were both sat there like prize plums in our smart stuff – within a couple of hours various other travellers in the cabin had overheard us and introduced themselves as various senior officers in the bank, all dressed in track suits, shorts, T-shirts etc – first rule of travelling LH being to travel comfortably 🙂

    • Genghis says:

      16 Jun16 June 10:20

      +1. I wear PJs always now on LH, day or night. But bare feet in the cabin with a risk of cheesy feet? No thanks.

  • Nick says:

    16 Jun16 June 10:29

    I fail to understand why ANYONE would wear flipflops for a flight. If the worst happened and you had to jump out and run across the tarmac, ending up barefoot having lost a flipflop would inevitably slow you down and probably leave you with injuries.

    Ok it’s rare, but it does happen, and I wish more people thought about what they might potentially have to do in an emergency. The most serious injuries when GVIIO caught fire in Vegas a few years back were burnt and scratched feet from running across the hot tarmac.

    • Nick_C says:

      16 Jun16 June 11:22

      I thought you had to remove shoes anyway before going down the slides?

      • Nick says:

        16 Jun16 June 11:34

        “High heeled shoes must be taken off as they may tear the evacuation slides”
        Followed by Thandie visually demonstrating pink stilettoes and the creepy guy grooling. No mention of ordinary shoes… can you really see people having to wait to evacuate before they’ve unlaced their trainers?!

        For the record, I wouldn’t wear stilettoes or sandals on a flight either.

      • Lumma says:

        16 Jun16 June 16:47

        Not a fan of the BA safety video then? I think I’m on the new a320 with the slimline seats on the way back from Budapest on Wednesday. No TVs so won’t have to endure it

    • Callum says:

      16 Jun16 June 20:54

      Risk Vs Reward. The “reward” of wearing flip flops outweighs the miniscule chance of the plane crashing/catching fire for many people.

      I don’t doubt for a second you make similar, if not worse, risks with your life on a regular basis. Ever drive when the train would have been an option? CRAZY!!!!! Don’t you know you’re much more likely to die in a car crash than a train crash?

  • Lady London says:

    16 Jun16 June 11:00

    Yes it’s bad. Nearly as bad as shorts.

• RussellH says:

  16 Jun16 June 10:10

  We grew up in a railway family and got rail tickets at 25% of the public price, plus at least one free first class ticket to anywhere in Great Britain plus British Railways ferries. Latterly I got quite adept at working out trips from London to Scotland, back to London and then onward to Hoek van Holland, Calais or Dieppe.

  We had friends who worked for BOAC; we were amazed to discover that they had been to the USA, Australia, South Africa, Kenya, but never set foot in France, Switzerland or Italy. Obvious, though, when you thought it through.

• W says:

  16 Jun16 June 10:42

  OT: is the amex chat working for anyone at the moment?

  • The Original Nick says:

    16 Jun16 June 11:36

    Amex chat can be a nuisance quite honestly. I much preferred the email system.

• Axel says:

  16 Jun16 June 10:54

  Im told by my teenage daughter Armani or Nike Sliders are di rigueur in Business LH.

  If you call sliders “flip-flops” you are really showing your age HFP readers ????

  • Tom1 says:

    16 Jun16 June 11:27

    Fully agree with your daughter, Axel.
    We should also differentiate between sliders and fluffy sliders please.
    I can fully accept sliders or flip flops (Havaianas), but sliders and socks is not a combo I can tolerate. ????

  • RussellH says:

    16 Jun16 June 15:39

    I have been told many times that Aussies call fli-flops ‘thongs’, which could conjour up a whole new concept of in-flight leisure-wear.

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